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Interviews

The assistant to the director of the Institute for Developing Economies’ Economic
Cooperation Department in Tokyo, Japan. Mr. Imai has studied the Chinese economy for
many years. The IDE does much of the work on economic programs for the Third World
for Japan’s Foreign Ministry.

Strategic Studies

Moscow intends to compensate for the lack of coherence in its economic policy by being
all the more ruthless toward the other republics of the former Soviet Union. Tajikistan
is a case in point—the civil war there has already claimed 100,000 casualties.

Feature

Citibank has been meeting secretly with representatives of the Federal Reserve for
the past two years, to plan out the banking provisions of the North American Free
Trade Agreement. But they won’t tell Congress what they discussed!

International

Two experiments with “revolution from above”—Gorbachov’s and Yeltsin’s—have failed,
and now we’re facing the “revolution from below,” warns the former head of German
military intelligence in a briefing at the National Press Club.

National

What the Clinton Administration has produced in the way of a “new” strategic doctrine,
after months of allegedly intense study, is a warmed-over version of the insane strategy
of the Bush Administration.

Correction

Last week’s article on the press conference of international dignitaries in Washington
calling for freedom for Lyndon LaRuche (p. 58) omitted the names of two speakers:
Laurence Hecht and Donald Phau, both defendants in the Virginia “railroad” prosecution
of associates of LaRouche. The two have been sentenced to outrageous prison terms
of 33 and 25 years, respectively, and will begin serving those sentences soon.